Suggested Food Shopping List for Hostelling Trips<
The following is my "standard" shopping list and guide to quantities. Please feel free to vary it if you're sick of sausage & beans!
Breakfast: Cereal followed by sausages & beans
Cereal Variety of Cornflakes, Weetabix, Muesli etc.
1 BIG packet per 15 breakfasts
Sausages 2 per breakfast
Baked beans 1 big can (840g) per 6 breakfasts
or 1 standard size (450g) per 3 breakfasts
Milk 1/3 pint per person per day
(More may be needed for heavy tea-drinking
sessions it's useful to have some UHT or
dried milk)
Lunch: sandwiches (1 cheese, 1 ham), chocolate biscuit, piece of fruit
Bread 1 large medium-sliced loaf per 4 lunches
(this allows 4 slices per lunch plus some
spare for breakfast - more may be needed if
there's a toaster)
(most people prefer brown bread)
Cheese 1 kg per 30 lunches
Ham 1 slice each (wafer thin)
Marge 500g per 20 lunches
Choc bics 1 each (Penguin Kit-kat etc or cheap
equivalent)
Fruit 1 each (Apples & bananas usually more popular
then oranges)
Pickle, lettuce, tomatoes etc to make sandwiches tolerable.
Sandwich bags
Extras (these are usually in the food box)
Tea bags - allow at least 2 per person per day - running out oftea is a
fate worse than death!
Coffee
Salt, Sugar, Cooking oil, herbs etc.
And also
If not going to a hostel, check whether we need:
Toilet paper, Washing-up liquid, scouring pads, tea towels
Evening meals<
Simple meals that can be cooked in a couple of big pots are usually most successful. Remember that some hostels don't have ovens.
Some rough guides to quantities:
Mince 4 to 6 oz per person
Spagetti At least 100g per person
Rice 100g per person
Potatoes 1/2 lb per person, or 3/4 lb if mashing
Custard Best to use "instant just add water"
packets 1 packet makes 3/4 pint which
will do 3 people
Please contact me if you have any additions, corrections, or interesting recipes for this list!